Prohibiting a diabetic patient from eating sweets
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Question:
Yes, may Allah reward you with good, Your Excellency the Shaykh. One of the sisters says: My mother (may Allah preserve her) is suffering from diabetes, and she is advanced in age, over seventy. Sometimes she asks us for the sweet food that contains sugar, and we prevent her from it and keep it away from her, saying we do not have all of this, in order to protect her health. She asks: Is this undutifulness to parents, or is it dutifulness?
Answer:
This is excellence in worship toward her. You are seeking her benefit, so this is a good thing. If this harms her and you keep it away from her so that it does not harm her, then this is dutifulness to her and excellence in worship toward her. Yes.
Yes, may Allah reward you with good, Your Excellency the Shaykh. One of the sisters says: My mother (may Allah preserve her) is suffering from diabetes, and she is advanced in age, over seventy. Sometimes she asks us for the sweet food that contains sugar, and we prevent her from it and keep it away from her, saying we do not have all of this, in order to protect her health. She asks: Is this undutifulness to parents, or is it dutifulness?
Answer:
This is excellence in worship toward her. You are seeking her benefit, so this is a good thing. If this harms her and you keep it away from her so that it does not harm her, then this is dutifulness to her and excellence in worship toward her. Yes.
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع معالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7506 — youtube.com (3:25)
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